Assignments

For your Final Paper, you will demonstrate your knowledge of psychopathology and apply your skills to a realistic scenario. Throughout this course, you have developed unique knowledge and skill sets that will allow you to critically analyze depictions of psychopathology in popular media and historical case examples from an informed point of view. Your Final…

Jim took the group form of Kelly’s Rep test separately from the other tests (Figure 11.2). Here we have a test that is structured in terms of the roles given to the subject and the task of formulating a similarity/ contrast construct. However, the subject is given total freedom in the content of the construct…

Many of the most important organizational behavior challenges require coordinating plans and goals among groups. This case describes a multi organizational effort, but the same principles of accommodation and compromise also apply when trying to work with multiple divisions within a single organization. You’ll create a blueprint for managing a complex development team’s progress, steering team members away from negative conflicts and toward productive discussion. You’ll also be asked to help create a new…

In this unit, you learned about early adulthood in terms of physical, cognitive, and personality development, and major social life events. For this assignment, you will reflect on those topics and how they are portrayed in popular media. Think about a film or television show that features early adults as main characters. You can choose to watch one…

 Write a 750-1,000-word rhetorical analysis essay of a public document. This public document is the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) website on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) found at http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/facts.html Your analysis should include at least TWO scholarly sources outside of class texts. Directions Complete a close reading of the assigned public document. Then, write a…

In the prerequisite course, Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis, you constructed basic contingency (crosstab) tables. You might be surprised to learn that you can estimate a simple logistic regression model, with a categorical predictor, using the descriptive values presented in the crosstab table. In this assignment, you use Microsoft Excel to construct a specialized tool that…

  What is it that makes some people succeed in life while others do not?  As part of the writing assignments for this course, you will address this question using psychological concepts and research to determine principles of success and then apply those principles to create an actionable, research-based plan for achieving success. The principles…

In this assignment, you will develop and submit a project plan for a community intervention that addresses a significant public health problem of your choice aside from those topics that have been already addressed in other assignments in this course. Your project plan must be based on the PRECEDE-PROCEED model and at least two behavior…

How does your source, “Long-term Reduction in Implicit Race Bias,” conform to the ethical guidelines of psychology? Some sources will specifically detail what was done to conform to ethical guidelines. In one or two sentences, explain what was (or wasn’t) specifically done to accomplish the above. Note: Remember to cite your sources by typing #cite. Many…

Social workers need to be able to identify cultural conceptions of illness and mental illness. Because studies show that anxiety and depression differ from culture to culture and within cultures, it is important to build skill using the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) to elicit how an individual has actually incorporated their cultural beliefs. While the…

Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation discussing perception, attention, encoding, and performance. Address the following in your presentation: The effects of perception, attention, and encoding on performance Include at least two scholarly peer-reviewed articles, in addition to the course text. Include speaker notes with your presentation. These should thoroughly explain the bullet points…

Resources: University of Phoenix Material: Reliability and Validity Worksheet Complete the University of Phoenix Material: Reliability and Validity Worksheet.